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by potato3732842 9mo ago
>he internet loves to bash truck owners as all being the same one guy who buys a truck to drive 1.3 miles to the office every day Because the only truck owners the people who bash trucks see are their neighbor across the street who is th
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by potato3732842 9mo ago
The "peak traffic" that all the 9-5 office workers on HN see is also not when trucks that carry things move. Blue collar work usually starts at 6/7/8am.
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by potato3732842 9mo ago
Way than half. Average is dragged up by 100k F-550s with $100k service bodies installed on them and $200k+ exotic cars. There are no negative and zero dollar sales to drag down the average. This is a textbook example of a case where media
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by potato3732842 9mo ago
The Euro vans (sprinter and transit) are very well suited to businesses who'll own new stuff, depreciate and trade in before it's out of warranty. There's a reason those things get exported to the low labor cost 3rd world fr
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by potato3732842 9mo ago
Yeah but the same exact geniuses in here screeching about "you don't need a truck" will judge you so hard when they see you in the home depot parking lot stacking the thing floor to ceiling with building materials. Source: ow
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by potato3732842 9mo ago
>AWD is a luxury outside of the most extreme of extreme locations. Only in the most strictly technical "I'm not touching you" sense. Either AWD/4wd is necessary-ish when you're going to other people's proper
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by potato3732842 9mo ago
Fullsize vans don't offer AWD at a reasonable price point. Either AWD/4wd is necessary when you're going to other people's property because you can't guarantee any given property isn't an icy shithole and when
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by potato3732842 9mo ago
Surely that has nothing to do with the weight distribution and handling characteristics that result in the pickup and sports car having different ability to create traction out of whatever friction coeficient is available. /s
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by potato3732842 9mo ago
>And, like you said, people think that an AWD car will stop faster. The only people I know who think this way are made up people who exist only in the minds of people seeking to validate a purchasing decision.
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by potato3732842 9mo ago
Snow tires don't really stand on their own merit unless you're constantly encountering the conditions the snow tire people use in the commercials to magnify the difference. The biggest reason to get snow tires is simply that then
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by potato3732842 9mo ago
They're substantially larger in all around size. Like comparable to a Dodge Dakota. A Maverick or Santa Cruz is comparable to a historical Ranger or S10, with the caveat that they're only available in one cab and bed configurati
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by potato3732842 9mo ago
It's not even "stuff I bring home". There's just never ending amount of shit that needs to be schlepped around. Sometimes I wish I lived in a condo, leased a Prius and golfed for a hobby.
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by potato3732842 9mo ago
The sprinter is massively over-hyped by people who've never owned one. Yeah, everything about it is generally "solid" and well done but at it's roots it's a very german car. The longblock will theoretically go a mil
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by potato3732842 9mo ago
>A pickup truck should just be max utility, especially if you're a manufacturer making your first one How do you even define that? Give it a heavy duty bed and you're wasting weight that could be put toward hauling/towing
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by potato3732842 9mo ago
I drive a wagon, among other vehicles. I live in a "tech area" of the country. Last weekend I hauled ~700lb of rebar on the roof (because they come in 20ft sticks so the wagon is the best choice). The number of dirty looks I got
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by potato3732842 9mo ago
Ford had a terrible but well packaging rear suspension design in those cars. It was designed to not have strut towers so he gets the full width which is probably around 4ft. No way does the length check out though. I haul lumber in a simi
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by potato3732842 9mo ago
You don't have to flag stuff under 4ft of overhang in most states.
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by potato3732842 9mo ago
>Sure, you can. Two kids up front and your wife in the bed. Quieter than the other way around.
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by potato3732842 9mo ago
>Heartbreaking but true. The most popular pickups today are not the most useful pickups. There are no more basic utilitarian pickups any longer, at least in the US. Any OEM will happily sell you a white vinyl floor half ton with your pre
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by potato3732842 9mo ago
This. Where I live the suburban dads wouldn't be caught dead projecting the "fullsize truck owner" image. They buy a Tacoma. Or they did until the Maverick came out.
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by potato3732842 9mo ago
I own a station wagon, a van and a pickup (none of which are nice or new) vehicle and three trailers (to be fair one is special purpose) and I'll put up to ~1000lb on the roof of the car before I drag a trailer around. Trailer is kind
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by potato3732842 9mo ago
The venn diagram between people who say what you just said (which to be clear, I'm not disagreeing with) and people who screech about safety if they see a pickup being anywhere near full utilized is way too close to a circle for me to
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by potato3732842 9mo ago
I think your assessment is accurate and realistic. But ICE is behaving pretty sloppy. I'm not sure it could get to that point without (just due to risk multiplied by sheer number of interactions) ICE accidentally escalating something
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by potato3732842 9mo ago
He's saying his friend and his friend's coworkers who somehow work for Newsom wants Newsom to do that. Not that Newsome wants to do that.
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by potato3732842 9mo ago
I'm gonna say the same thing I said the last time you trotted out this opinion (which is far more excusable now that you've outed yourself as a brit BTW). At a societal level the LARPers don't matter. They are a rounding err
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by potato3732842 9mo ago
>Not all bad things are the same. Who said they were? >Raiding a reporter's house is very much an abnormal act to have taken place. Only by invoking the most numerical slight of hand sort of "a DV is abnormal because we hand
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by potato3732842 9mo ago
>Can you point to other instances of the FBI raiding homes of journalists to investigate leaks? James Burke, the Veritas guy, the ABC News guy, etc.
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by potato3732842 9mo ago
>, this is absolutely not normal On what grounds? Just repeating a BS assertion doesn't make it true. The feds have been abusing journalists like this as long as I've been alive. It's not a lot, it's a trickle of th
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by potato3732842 9mo ago
Of course there's business happening and it will be publicized in the normal ways. This is completely tangential to all the business not happening and all the other sharing of information that's not set in stone enough to be crea
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by potato3732842 9mo ago
> It's just a way to get people all in one place at one time, so that there is an efficient gathering to do deals. It's not efficient. It's plausibly deniable. People want to be able to meet and gauge interest in the most

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